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RS-232 (also known as EIA RS-232C or V.24) is a standard for serial binary data exchange between a DTE (data terminal equipment) and DCE (Data Communication equipment). It is commonly used in the serial ports of PCs.

I used RS232 interface of barcode scanner (Datalogic QD2100), for my project but a problem arises. The manual given with this barcode scanner has certain barcodes for mode setting (scan mode-flashing, ...

We are sniffing data from a restaurant point of sale system (RJ45 to DB9) to its thermal printer by using an RS232 splitter and a Raspberry Pi (DB9 to USB on the Pi).
This has worked great 99% of the ...

I am experimenting with my PC's RS-232 interface on Win7. I want to toggle the RTS line state with "mode com1: rts=on" command. However monitoring the RTS line with multimeter shows that the state of ...

I'd like to use an ATEN UC232A USB to serial converter on my computer with Windows 8. I downloaded the appropriate driver which seems to work but after a while produces a blue screen because of the ...

Is there any hyper terminal client in OS X can save the log with timestamp at each line of the log?
Just like PC's hyper terminal tool TeraTerm, there is an timestamp option while configuring the log ...

I'm trying to establish a serial connection to a peripheral from my PC's RS-232 port. Pretty simple stuff, and I've had not trouble doing it with countless peripherals before. And yet when I configure ...

my linux machine doesn't have a RS232 port, only an RJ45. I also have my grandpa's old pentium machine running windows 95 that has an RS232 port. The only means of interfacing these two computers are ...

I often use HyperTerminal in Windows XP. The problem is that it just supports COM and telnet. I know COM Port is very old-fashioned, but I can't replace it with USB because there is no such program ...

Is there a secret trick to skipping the 5 second animated splash screen when Hilgraeve HYPERTERMINAL starts?
When I open HyperTerminal (HyperTrm.exe), I want it to open immediately, and not show me ...

I'm trying to create a direct connection to a hardware device via RS232 serial connection. Am using a USB to Serial adapter and works fine in WinXP but the option seems to have disappeared in Win7. ...

I need a serial port monitoring software that works on windows 7 64bit or GNU/Linux and supports at least RS-232. Bonus points are if it's free software or at least freeware. I just need to be able to ...

So I have a very, very old DOS machine with an RS232 port on it and I want to be able to transfer files to it from a Windows 7 machine. For this i bought an RS232 to USB cable.
What sort of software ...

I need to verify what's being output on an RS232 port of an appliance that's running proprietary software (e.g. NOT Windows or Linux). The port is sending data to a target app on another appliance, ...

I would like to know whether the DB-25 port is a serial or parallel port. These ports are otherwise known as printer ports, aka LPT port.
I'm very confused about this since, according to Wikipedia, ...

I have a device with RS-232 and a control program on PC. It works fine via serial cable but with usb-to-serial some functions don't work correctly.
Why usb-to-serial doesn't work?
I tried to change ...

I have been working on creating a UART on an FPGA. I can successfully transmit and receive single characters typed on PuTTY. However, when I set my FPGA to constantly write a large sequences of "A", ...

I have a device that i want to connect with, reading the user's manual it claims that i can connect to the device via SR-232 interface and it list all the steps to configure a null modem connection on ...

Does anyone know of a program that would allow you to control multiple IR cameras via usb (computer jack) to rs232 (camera hardware)? We have a cameraswitcher, very low key, that I can press buttons ...

I have a RS232C/USB cable to connect an electronic device to my iMac Intel (MacOSX SnowLeo 10.6.3).
Is there a utility program that allows for sending ASCII characters on the USB port that the RS232C ...

I am trying to communicate between an embedded device which runs linux and a PC which runs windows xp over a RS232 connection. On windows I use Hyperterminal, but I don't know which settings I should ...

I'm trying to replace an old computer which is boot from a floppy disk with novell netware 3.12 with a modern computer. This computer has a serial com port and an Ethernet card, and all is does is to ...

I have an RS232 device connected to a Digi PortServer on my network. I can telnet to the Digi's IP and port number to communicate with that RS232 device.
I have a Windows application that knows how ...